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31Mar/10Off

Nothing makes sense any more

No. 1 cable news host Bill O'Reilly said Tuesday that he will personally write a check to cover $16,500 in legal costs for the father of a fallen U.S. Marine who sued the members of a church who picketed his son's funeral.

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31Mar/10Off

A succinct explanation of what the corporate bellyaching is about.

Under the previous system, major corporations were subsidized by the government to provide prescription drug coverage to their employees. At the same time, corporations could claim on their tax returns that it was they -- not the taxpayers -- who paid for the drug coverage, and could write the expense off as a tax deduction.

Health care reform cuts out that fat. The corporations still get taxpayer money to help pay for their employees' drug coverage, but they can no longer continue the fiction that they're using their own money to do it.

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31Mar/10Off

Dan Savage and Horse Marriage

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30Mar/10Off

O’Reilly’s Internet Operation System

Chad Dickerson, chief technology officer of Etsy, received a pre-launch Nexus One from Google three weeks ago. He says Google's phone feels connected to certain services on the Web in a way the iPhone doesn't. "Compared to the iPhone, the Google phone feels like it's part of the Internet to me," he said. "If you live in a Google world, you have that world in your pocket in a way that's cleaner and more connected than the iPhone.

Really fascinating article. I particular that quote pulled from an NYT article.

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29Mar/10Off

Bilingual Hypocrisy

In English, Graham is threatening to blow up any hope of an immigration deal over the health care bill. In Spanish, not so much

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27Mar/10Off

This is the kind of debate I’d like to see between elected officials

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27Mar/10Off

Hypocricy: Continued

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27Mar/10Off

Hypocricy: Continued

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27Mar/10Off

Hypocrisy rears its ugly head yet again

Well, here's how McCain reacted in 2005 when President Bush was considering a recess appointment for John Bolton, the controversial nominee to be United Nations ambassador: "I would support it. It's the president's prerogative."

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26Mar/10Off

Krugman on the Krazies

For today’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side — Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions — are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern.

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